Mon.Dec 15, 2014

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10 Incentives For Entrepreneurs To Bootstrap Their Startup

Startup Professionals Musings

'I’ve always wondered who started the urban myth that the best way to start a company is to come up with a great idea, and then find some professional investors to give you a pot of money to build a company. In my experience, that’s actually the worst way to start, for reasons I will outline here, and also the least common way, according to an authoritative survey of new startups.

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Holiday Marketing – Plan For Your Best Year Ever

YoungUpstarts

'by Diana Ennen, President of Virtual Word Publishing and author of “ Virtual Assistant, The Series: Become a Highly Successful, Sought After VA “. Tis the season to go marketing, fa la la la la … la la la la. Why do most love holiday marketing so much? Because it’s a great way to go into the New Year with more clients and more sales and at the same time, connect on a deeper level with your clients and potential clients.

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Building your user engagement pyramid

Version One Ventures

'One of the first blog posts that Boris shared with me when I was starting out is “ Don’t forget your logged out users ” by Fred Wilson. Fred notes that with many social platforms, a huge number of their regular users don’t actually login because they are able to derive value from their services on a “logged out basis”. As a result, he advises entrepreneurs to build services for those users that lead to more engagement, ultimately motivating them to log in.

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Jerry Colonna and Rand Fishkin Discuss Depression and Entrepreneurship

Feld Thoughts

'Jerry Colonna spent a few hours with me and Amy on Saturday at our house. Jerry is one of our closest friends on this planet so any time we get time with him is a treasure for us. It was a cold-ish, snowy, gloomy Colorado early winter day. Amy and I were pretty off-balance due to my blood clot so it was especially nice to be with him as he always helps rebalance us.

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Building Healthy Innovation Ecosystems for Your Projects

Speaker: Nick Noreña, Innovation Coach and Advisor, Kromatic

Every startup and innovation project exists within an ecosystem that either helps or hurts that project. As innovation managers, we need to keep a pulse of that ecosystem and make sure we're helping those innovation projects we're managing every step of the way. In this webinar, Nick Noreña will walk through an Innovation Ecosystem Model that he and his team at Kromatic have developed to help investors, heads of product, teachers, and executives understand how they can best support innovation in

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41% of UK ecommerce now on mobile

The Equity Kicker

'I took this chart from Criteo’s recently published Mobile Commerce Report. It’s amazing to see how fast mobile is taking share from desktop and great to see the UK leading other western markets, as we do in just about all areas of ecommerce. Other interesting points from the report include: Smartphones now account for a greater share of mobile transactions than tablets (although not in the UK).

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Episode 6: How To Be Profitable In Web Design With Liz Dobrinska

Mike Michalowicz

'Show Summary . Liz Dobrinska, founder of Innovative Images, joins Episode 6 of the Profit first Podcast. Liz explains the importance of having the right accountant and tailoring to the needs of your client. Our Guest. Liz Dobrinska, founder of Innovative Images, provides consulting, marketing communication, website and design services to a diverse number of clients including universities, private clubs, food service, manufacturing and technology companies.

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Homebrew: Our Follow-on Investment in UpCounsel

Hunter Walker

'Over on the Hombrew blog , we shared news of our follow-on financing for UpCounsel as the legal marketplace for small businesses, raised additional financing from institutional leads Metamorphic and Crosslink.

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Transitioning from Working in a Job to Starting a Business

The Entrepreneurial Mind

'The Entrepreneurial Mind : Cameron Powell talks about building a runway with a day job as a way to bootstrap a startup. Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Tumblr Stumble Digg Delicious The post Transitioning from Working in a Job to Starting a Business appeared first on Dr Jeff Cornwall.

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Advice on how a startup CEO should prioritize their time

Jeff Hilimire

'I was talking to a good friend of mine recently, a startup CEO like myself, and he was struggling with the difficulty of deciding what exactly he should be spending his time on. He has a functioning version 1.0 product and two other people in his company. Should he be spending more time recruiting, finding the talent that will help him move his company forward?

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How and Why I Use BuzzSumo

Duct Tape Marketing

'How and Why I Use BuzzSumo written by John Jantsch read more at Small Business Marketing Blog from Duct Tape Marketing. Like you I use lots of tools to keep up on things, amplify things, research things, and share things. Online tools for such things come and go and often get replaced by this week’s new addition, so I love it when a tool I already like just keeps getting better.

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How To Choose Appropriate Online Software Tools To Be Used In Your Startup

YoungUpstarts

'Now is the perfect time to start a company and an associated website that represents the business. We have access to so many online tools that can reduce startup costs and help the company to grow at a much faster rate than it could in the past. The problem is that there are so many options available and choosing something that is suitable can be complicated, especially when you do not know much about what is available.

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Small Business and Startups: How Do I Thank You?

crowdSPRING Blog

'Mom taught us well. She raised us to be polite and she raised us to consider other’s feelings. For many small business owners saying thanks to your team is a head-scratcher. Performance-based bonuses can be a powerful incentive for individuals, and profit-sharing plans can reward great teamwork, but saying thank you can and should rise above those.

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How Not to Let the Crazy In

This is going to be BIG.

'A friend of mine is starting a huge new project. She told me that 2015 is going to be the craziest year she''s ever had. I suggested to her that it will certainly be the busiest, but that she didn''t have to let the crazy in. We throw around the word "crazy" but in all seriousness, mental health is something that doesn''t get much discussion in the startup world.

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Strengths and Weaknesses – How They Impact Our Worlds

entrepreMusings

'I read and took the Strengths Finder 2.0 assessment back in 2011, and what it told me my Top 5 strengths were seemed to make sense at the time, although I was surprised at what they call “Woo.” I just joined a new company where strengths are valued, and I had the opportunity to take the assessment again, but this time it was the original version: Now, Discover Your Strengths (Amazon link).

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